Friday, August 10, 2007

All Stories Are About Wolves

All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.

All of them?

Sure, he says. Think about it. There's escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, capturing the wolves, taming the wolves. Being thrown to the wolves, or throwing others to the wolves so the wolves will eat them instead of you. Running with the wolf pack. Turning into a wolf. Best of all, turning into the head wolf. No other decent stories exist.

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Heh. That reminds me of an offhand comment by someone in my poetry class a few years back: "All poems are love poems."Since then, I've wanted to write a poem starting with that line, but could never get it right.

Interesting. I don't think that's actually true, however, while I do think this is the most concise, brilliant statement about story-writing. I've been thinking about every book I own and love and they all fit this formula. All stories really are about wolves.

"Being thrown thrown to the kiwi, or throwing others to the kiwi so the kiwi will eat them instead of you. Running with the kiwi. Turning into a kiwi. Best of all, turning into the head kiwi."

Dude, totally works. HEAD KIWI FTW!

But seriously, though, it could be used for any beast, not just wolves, although I do love stories about wolves :) MY, AUTHOR, WHAT BIG PUPPET STRINGS YOU HAVE. THE BETTER TO PULL YOU WITH! Haha. I crack myself up.

But listen:

"Being thrown thrown to the lions, or throwing others to the lions so the lions will eat them instead of you. Running with the lions. Turning into a lion. Best of all, turning into the head lion."

Any animal, any beast, any creature that can run and eats flesh. Try it with ogre, troll, panther, tiger, snakes, etc.